Ya Gotta Love Joe...

For those of you not too close to Joe, what you need to know is that he is the SWEETEST but the MOST DETERMINED TODDLER on the face of this earth. He does NOT back down and when he gets and idea in his head, well....we have learned to just go with it. Tonight, Thomas brought home Chipolte fordinner for us since I fed the kids an early dinner. Joe found the aluminum lid to the burrito bowl. We wiped it out and at first he used it as a drum. The next request was, "I want to bang my head." Really? "MOMMY, I WANT IT ON MY HEAD!!" With much hesitation, not at what he wanted to do, but if I was doing it RIGHT, I made the burrito bowl lid a hat to bang..?!?! It made him very happy...as did it us.

Bad Boy and Big Girl Bob

Joe found some of my markers.....

And Caroline got a BIG GIRL haircut!!

....she did not move an inch in the hairdresser's chair and giggled the whole time!

Great Midwest Balloon Fest

Friday night we went to the Balloon Launch at the Great Midwest Balloon Fest. I get crazy excited when I see balloons anywhere and I was NOT going to miss showing this to the kids. The night was PERFECT!! We got there just in time to watch the balloons "blow" up and take off. We did not stay for the glow, where all the balloons hover and "glow in the dark ," but maybe next year when the kids are older. They LOVED it!!! Pictures are in no particular order:

A Walk in the Park

Friday morning we took a random trip to Heritage Park...and took a walk:-)

What WE Do on Rainy Days:

Build a Train and go for a Ride!!!

Random Pics

I scream, You scream, we all scream for Ice Cream

With three kids at the same mess level, we haven't done cones before. Here are their first licks. The novelty wore of fairly recently and the mess is just too much times 3, so we are back to bowls, but they will be fun treats every once in a while.

Here are a few pictures of some random fun around our house:

Those are Joe's "bongo drums."
CRAFTY: The kids were a little antsy the other day and found some old pipe cleaners....I got crafty and made...
and excavator...

a guitar(do you see a trend with Joe?the kid loves to make his music)...

a princess crown (I do NOT foster this "princess" behavior at all...it just comes naturally).

RARE Occurance!

We may never see this again...3 children sitting QUIETLY at the SAME time, watching a show!

First Day of School

Getting ready to go...

At school!